Example sentences of "[conj] she would [vb infin] preferred " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , he had kept her waiting at the Old Mitre and she would have preferred him to say everything then , or telephone now , rather than trail after her . |
| 2 | Then , to Juliet and David , ‘ Miss Pope will see you , but she 's very busy , and she would have preferred to know what it 's all about . ’ |
| 3 | But she would have preferred him to admire her from the beginning , without the encouragement of her valentine . |
| 4 | While she would have preferred to manage alone , Ashley did not relish slip-sliding down the slope in an undignified arm-flailing fashion , nor on her bottom . |
| 5 | All tidy and comfortable , though she would have preferred to see a little color about the place . |
| 6 | The handling of the " Fools rush in where angels fear to tread " theme , though not wholly elegant , showed ambition , and the assumption that Clara was responsible for the dismissal of Higginbotham showed courtesy , though she would have preferred his name to be left out of it altogether . |